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[DSA756] DSA-756-1 squirrelmail

Vulnerability Assessment Summary
DSA-756-1 squirrelmail

Detailed Explanation for this Vulnerability Assessment

Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in Squirrelmail, a
commonly used webmail system. The Common Vulnerabilities and
Exposures project identifies the following problems:
Martijn Brinkers discovered cross-site scripting vulnerabilities
that permit remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML
in the URL and e-mail messages.
James Bercegay of GulfTech Security discovered a vulnerability in
the variable handling which could lead to attackers altering other
people's preferences and possibly reading them, writing files at
any location writable for www-data and cross site scripting.
For the old stable distribution (woody) these problems have been fixed in
version 1.2.6-4.
For the stable distribution (sarge) these problems have been fixed in
version 1.4.4-6sarge1.
For the unstable distribution (sid) these problems have been fixed in
version 1.4.4-6sarge1.
We recommend that you upgrade your squirrelmail package.

Solution : http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-756
Network Security Threat Level: High

Networks Security ID:

Vulnerability Assessment Copyright: This script is (C) 2007 Michel Arboi

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